What Alexis de Tocqueville thinks about humility

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French political philosopher and historian (1805 to 1859); author of Democracy in America.

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1. c. 1835

   Our readingAlongside a healthy passion for equality, a depraved one prefers equality in slavery to unequal freedom

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   Their wordsThere is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored. This passion tends to elevate the humble to the rank of the great; but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom.

   ↗Democracy in America, Volume 1 (1835; Henry Reeve translation)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book